Deputy Director of Brooklyn Planning Division of Planning & Predevelopment

About the Agency

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city’s housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing home ownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

The Office of Neighborhood Strategies (ONS) is charged with ensuring that HPD’s development and preservation efforts are guided by meaningful community engagement and coordinated with public investments in infrastructure and services, as put forth in the Mayor’s Housing Plan.

ONS is composed of two divisions and a cross-divisional unit reporting to the Associate Commissioner:

• The Division of Planning and Predevelopment (P&P) is central to developing and managing HPD's housing production pipeline from project proposal phases through the land use review and entitlement process, to ensure that HPD's investments contribute to building strong, healthy, resilient neighborhoods in all five boroughs. The advertised position is a member of this division.
• The Division of Neighborhood Development & Stabilization (ND&S) leads the agency's commitment to neighborhood planning and strategic preservation through engagement with tenants, landlords, community leaders, and neighborhood stakeholders as we work to enable strong and healthy neighborhoods anchored by affordable housing.
• The Strategic Initiatives Unit (SIU) leads special ONS initiatives and provides essential technical, planning, and policy support to staff and the Associate Commissioner of Neighborhood Strategies.

Your role will be to support the Director in developing, implementing, and managing all Brooklyn Planning activities. The Deputy Director helps to create, train, and manage a team of energetic, thoughtful, and engaged planners who work together to manage a portfolio of projects along a critical path toward public approval and development financial closing, while coordinating input from community members, technical experts, agency partners, and agency leadership.

• Independently manage a select portfolio of high-priority or complex projects;
• Analyze development trends, neighborhood and market dynamics; land use and zoning analysis;
• Work with Senior Planners and Planners to troubleshoot and navigate complex planning issues as they arise in projects and review their work for quality assurance;
• Advise the Director on policy issues and potential solutions;
• Assist the Director with creating, implementing, and maintaining, clear operational procedures;
• Represent the agency and Borough Planning team at public meetings and forums;
• Partner with Predevelopment Planners in the request for proposals review and selection process;
• Work collaboratively with the Division of Neighborhood Development and Stabilization on neighborhood planning efforts;
• Work collaboratively with HPD Office of Development staff (including finance, environmental review, and architect colleagues) on preparing projects for financial closings; and
• Coordinate with other NYC agencies, such as the Economic Development Corporation, Department of City Planning, and for- and non-profit housing…